سونكر

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Ottoman Turkish

سونكر

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek σφουγγάρι (sfoungári), σφογγάρι (sfongári), from Byzantine Greek σφουγγάριον (sphoungárion), σπογγάριν (spongárin), from Ancient Greek σπόγγος (spóngos), ultimately from Pre-Greek substrate.

Noun

سونكر • (sünger) (definite accusative سونكری (süngeri), plural سونكرلر (süngerler))

  1. sea sponge, any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera
    Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)
  2. sponge, bath sponge, a piece of porous material used for washing
    Synonym: سفنج (sifunc)

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Further reading

  • Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سونكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 116
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sünger”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4380
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “sünger”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 379
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سونكر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 280b
  • Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “سونكر”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 446b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سونكر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Spongia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1587
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سونكر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2716
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 25
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sünger”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سونكر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095
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